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Stone Age People Survived a Supervolcano Eruption by Adapting to Dry Periods, Archaeologists Suggest
even those introduced by the Toba volcanic super-eruption of 74,000 years ago,” he adds. Kappelman’s team first came across the Shinfa-Metema 1 site in 2002. Excavations revealed fossil ...
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Scientists find clear proof that a supervolcano won't wipe humans out
Recent NASA research concluded that a super-eruption, which erupts over 240 cubic ... which chemically-match output from the Toba volcano, which erupted in modern-day Sumatra, Indonesia, 74,000 ...
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What if all the world's supervolcanoes erupted at once
When Toba erupted 74,000 years ago, winds blew ash all the way to India. So if all the supervolcanoes go off at once, volcanic debris would spread across the globe. When the eruption ends ...
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Humanity May Have Flourished After Supervolcano Eruption
The biggest volcanic eruption in the last 2 million years occurred some 74,000 years ago when Mount Toba, a supervolcano in Indonesia, blew its top, spewing massive volumes of rocks and ash across the ...
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Caldera Quiz
It is disturbing to realize the last eruption was approximately 600,000 ... What caldera nearly wiped out the human race? Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia is believed to be the largest resurgent ...